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Edge Effects is a participatory project that takes inspiration from nature to shape an ongoing series of artist residencies with primary and secondary schools in Newham, East London. It borrows its title from an ecological phenomenon that occurs in the space where the tree line of a forest meets a field, or land meets water. This natural ...
This exhibition explores the intersection of art and everyday life and the role of the contemporary art institution at a time of uncertainty and change. The title takes inspiration from African-American writer and novelist James Baldwin, who proposed that life is more important than art … that is why art is important. At a time when the cost ...
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Sep 20, 2022 · For her largest solo exhibition in London to date, Korean-Canadian artist, Zadie Xa (b.1983) presents a new body of work commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery. Xa creates an ambitious installation where sculptures, textiles and paintings act as ‘tricksters’ and ‘shapeshifters’ in and amongst a large-scale fabric structure that is inspired ...
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On 12th March 2021, the Whitechapel Gallery celebrated its 120 th birthday. Its very first show was presented in 1901, Modern Pictures by Living Artists, Pre-Raphaelites and Old Masters attracted 260,000 visitors! Some say it was because it was the first time they’d seen electric lights, but founders Samuel and Henrietta Barnett knew that ...
Jan 12, 2022 · 12 January 2022 – 8 May 2022. Pick up a pencil, assemble a sculpture and dive into the imaginative potential of The Living Studio. Running parallel to A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020, Galleries 5 and 6 are transformed into a live making space filled with inspirational objects, books, artistic materials and prompts for activity.
